Tamayo Marukawa, Japan’s newly-appointed Olympic minister, told the media on Friday one of the biggest concerns she has about hosting the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo is the heavy traffic in the capital, which could cause transportation issues for athletes and fans. ...

Washington D.C. and Baltimore were under blizzard warnings on Thursday and states of emergency were declared across the East Coast as preparations were made for a storm expected to bring up 30 inches (75 cm) of snow. As the first major East Coast winter ...

The transport ministry is set to utilize an upgraded version of the ETC (electronic toll collection) system to reduce congestion on expressways. The ETC 2.0 system, introduced in August, carries out conventional toll collection services but also offers drivers useful information on congestion, accidents ...

Two bystanders helped deliver a baby girl after her parents got stuck in traffic on a New Jersey shore highway on their way to a hospital. The Asbury Park Press reports Rose and Trevor Abbud, of Middletown, New Jersey, were headed to a hospital ...

A white Ohio policeman who shot a black man during a routine traffic stop pleaded not guilty to murder charges Thursday as two of his colleagues were suspended. The family of Sam DuBose, 43, have said he would have been dismissed as just “one ...

Tokyo’s Shibuya Ward said Friday it may resume its old custom of closing two main streets to cars on weekends in hopes of invigorating the area in the lead-up to the Summer Olympics in 2020. “Bringing back pedestrian-only streets would greatly help Shibuya’s goal ...

The number of traffic accident deaths nationwide declined in 2014, but the share of elderly people killed was the highest in nearly 50 years, according to a government report issued Tuesday that called for further development in safe-driving technology like automatic braking systems. A ...

Stuck in traffic heading out of Tokyo, Kohei Miwa noticed how few of the cars near him on the expressway were carrying passengers. “It occurred to me that car-pooling would be one way to reduce traffic jams,” said Miwa, a 38-year-old former banker who ...

The Aichi Prefectural Police are trying novel approaches to reduce traffic accidents, including installing light signals that can’t be seen from a distance and making streets much narrower at pedestrian crossings so drivers must slow down. By prefecture, Aichi has the most traffic fatalities ...

A 47-km-long expressway encircling central Tokyo fully opened on Saturday, some 50 years after it was planned, creating easier access to Haneda airport and potentially fewer traffic jams. The Central Circular Route is the first to fully open among three Tokyo-area ring expressways for ...

The New Year’s holiday exodus from Tokyo and other urban areas peaked Tuesday, with travelers packing major train stations and airports throughout the day. Domestic flights departing from Tokyo’s Haneda airport were almost fully booked, according to Japan Airlines Co. and All Nippon Airways ...